Bike Gear - Work Clothes - Meetings

[klingon]

wear work pants under bike pants?? then ditch it all into a bag and lock to bike..

or just take it all into the meeting with you and chuck it in the corner.. just remember to turn up late, be obnoxious and loud, and dont apologise

I've been doing this for a couple of years now (no, not being obnoxious - wearing bike gear over my work gear).

Here's how it works for me:

• Pack rack on my bike with a large (expandable) RJays pack
• Textile trou (with knee armour) over the top of my work trou (occasionally I take a skirt to change into but I doubt that will be an issue for you)
• Textile jacket with zip-out liner. Sometimes I wear the liner inside and put my suit jacket in my pack, sometimes I remove the liner and wear my corporate jacket inside my bike jacket.
• When I reach my destination I either get changed in the car park - just whip off helmet, gloves and outer layer of clothing, stuff it in the bag, lock it and leave OR get changed in the bathroom and leave the bag at reception.

You do need to have a bit of planning, and a bit of confidence to carry it off. You need to make sure you arrive early so you have time to do your Superman quick-change without stressing. You also need to have a hair style that you can just run your hands through after you take the helmet off and know you look presentable.

Sometimes a client will walk me from the meeting room back to reception, or even out to my 'car'. I still feel a little strange stopping at reception and picking up my giant bag!

Shoes/boots still create a bit of a challenge for me. Boots are quite bulky to store in a pack, along with helmet, jacket & trou. Sometimes I wear my bike boots into the meeting and just hope nobody notices! The other day I wore my 'dress' boots on the bike and felt extremely vulnerable. I don't think they would have offered my feet much protection if the worst happened.

But yes, it is possible to do the corporate thing while riding a bike - even for a female!

[Luckylegs]

Why not? When I fall off, and hit my knee on the ground, I would like to have them. If you weren't wearing them and screwed your knee... you would be thinking "why didnt i wear sliders...."

Dude, I came off my bike in May at the track at Taupo and slid rolled etc etc, (FWIW, I didnt have the kneesliders on, because although Id planned and packed everything I needed it was inevitable Id forget something) now there is no scuffing on the velcro where the slider would sit (on the outside of the knee) but scuffing on the knees.

Not only were the pants essentially un-damaged (Go QMOTO !!!) they were esentially un-damaged and my knees were sweet as well (shame about my foot).

They key here for me is that the sliders are not going to give you any more protection than the armour inside the pants.... Oh wait (lightbulb going off)... your not talking about the armour right ???? Cos that does still (despite being on the inside) cause a potrusion at the knee area which could be seen through a pair of work pants

Or I may have no idea..... ?????

[Swoop]

Givi topbox.
I have conducted inspections and ridden to locations requiring this. As far away as Tauranga and around the coromandel.
You don't want to take a car there...
The company pays for milage, so it is a good earner as well!

Topbox to safely stash your crap.

[GOONR]

Hey All,

Well I work corporate, at the moment use my Sales Managers car to get to meetings. Hard to organise and frustrating.

My Mission - to get to a meeting on my bike, wearing full gear, then walk in the meeting with nothing but my keys and work clothes.

1) Does anyone know any leather pants that have small enough knee sliders that will fit under work pants? (Quazi/1tonne you think yours will?)

2)Buy one of these (http://www.millets.co.uk/rucksacks/r...ct/090469.html)

3) Put my work shoes in my backpack, along with my suit jacket.

4) Get to the meeting, in the carpark/carpark 20sec drive down the road, put helmet/gloves/boots/jacket into the bag,put on my work shoes and jacket.

5) Put bag into this mesh wire thing (see above) and padlock to my bike for security both for my bike and the gear.

What do you guys think? Any idea where I could get the mesh wire thing?
Think someone would still try steal the bag? Would be in a different place each time so no planned thefts.

Cheers!

aaron

If you really want the mesh thing you can get it on tardme...

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Mo...-227188338.htm

[rachprice]

Do you just mean knee armour?

[MaxCannon]

I'd say you have two options.

1) Drive

2) Wear textile gear over the top of your work clothes.

Quality textile is lightweight, waterproof and hardwearing.

When I go onsite on my bike it's usually because an urgent fix is required.
The client doesn't care what I look like so long as I sort their problem out and do it quick.

I've ridden to job interviews before and simply taken a good pair of shoes in my tank bag. With my work gear underneath my bike pants and jacket it takes 10 seconds change and dump it all in the corner.
This however was for IT positions - formal attire is considered to be anything better than jeans and a hoodie.

If appearance is hugely important then I'd drive. Nothing like showing up in a crisp suit with your tie on straight.

[Squiggles]

Givi top box... get a bigger one so it'll all fit inside. Yes you can mount em to a hyobag

[ynot slow]

Why not? When I fall off, and hit my knee on the ground, I would like to have them. If you weren't wearing them and screwed your knee... you would be thinking "why didnt i wear sliders...."

Armour not sliders is the term,armour helps if ya crash,sliders stop the wear if you happen to get down.But if you have a company car use that,as sales reps tend to need to be well presented.

[Zapf]

Armour not sliders is the term,armour helps if ya crash,sliders stop the wear if you happen to get down.But if you have a company car use that,as sales reps tend to need to be well presented.

Well I am never on bike for first meeting. But after they know you well, they are usually cool with it.

[ynot slow]

Well I am never on bike for first meeting. But after they know you well, they are usually cool with it.

Actually had a think after posted and thought that could be possible,also a few years ago at work we had a once a year expo,with reps etc over weekend,one rep from Masterton came up on the Sunday by bike,I asked what sort and spent a fair few minutes admiring it,think it was vtr1000 was 6 or so years ago,also was good talking to him(rep/owner)about bikes while the boss thought I was after product info(was slow Sunday arvo).